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The kings used the title "King of the Franks" (Latin: Rex Francorum) until the late twelfth century; the first to adopt the title of "King of France" (Latin: Rex Franciae; French: roi de France) was Philip II in 1190 (r. 1180–1223), after which the title "King of the Franks" gradually lost ground. [3]
English claimants to the throne of France: Kings of England and later, of Great Britain (renounced by Hanoverian King George III upon union with Ireland) Jacobite claimants to the throne of France : senior heirs-general of King Edward III of England and thus his claim to the French throne , also claiming England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The title "King of the Franks" is attested in the Kingdom of France until 1190, that of "Queen of the Franks" (for queen consorts) until 1227. That represented a shift in thinking about the monarchy from that of a popular monarchy , the leader of a people, sometimes without a defined territory to rule, to that of a monarchy tied to a specific ...
King of France r. 1322–1328: Joan of Évreux 1310–1371: Isabella 1295–1358: Edward II 1284–1327 King of England: John I the Posthumous 1316–1316 King of France r. 1316: Joan II 1312–1349 Queen of Navarre: Philip III 1306–1343 King of Navarre: Edward III 1312–1377 King of England Valois: Joan the Lame of Burgundy 1293–1348 ...
The history of France as recounted in the Grandes Chroniques de France, and particularly in the personal copy produced for King Charles V between 1370 and 1380 that is the saga of the three great dynasties, the Merovingians, Carolingians, and the Capetian Rulers of France, that shaped the institutions and the frontiers of the realm.
The Kingdom of France was also ruled in personal union with the Kingdom of Navarre over two time periods, 1284–1328 and 1572–1620, after which the institutions of Navarre were abolished and it was fully annexed by France (though the King of France continued to use the title "King of Navarre" through the end of the monarchy).
List of Dukes Creation Date History of the title Duchy of Auvergne: List: 1226–1271 1360–1521 1528–1532 1569–1574 1773–1778 1st creation: for Alphonse of France, Count of Poitiers. 2nd creation: for John of France, passed in 1434 to the Dukes of Bourbon, confiscated in 1521 by the king.
The following is a list of the heirs to the throne of the Kingdom of France, that is, those who were legally next in line to assume the throne upon the death of the King. From 987 to 1792, all heirs to the French throne were male-line descendants of Hugh Capet .